knitting takes over
I'm deep into making the second of a pair of socks. I want to wear them so bad! I wore the one a few hours on one foot and that foot approved most heartily. Now I need to duplicate it for the other foot and it consumes all the time I can free up! Well, mostly. I make myself put it down for things, like right now to type here.
I've begun the digitizing of our movie collection. I got a 3 TB drive and Dan marshalled the software. Since he has the bluray drive we're using his system to do the work. Besides the app only has 30 days and then we have to pay $70 to keep going or maybe install it on my laptop and get another month if we're almost done. We'll need all the bluray disks done by then so I should remember to focus on them. So then I will have our collection in one easy package smaller than a bread box instead of lining a whole damn wall with it. I mean, I could use that space to breathe! Or store knitting, or, well it would also be more convenient for watching. Just plug it into the bluray drive and all our movies are there for the watching on either the main or kitchen tv. Move the device to the other tvs and you have something attached to each one that can watch those movies, although not in 3d. I'll need to rip 3d and non-3d separately, in fact.
So I told Dan I should sell the disks at yard-sales and put in a note that reads "NB: the viewing rights were not sold with these disks. Please borrow a library copy before watching this disk." LOL
So then I think to myself, if we go with our live-aboard sailboat across the border to visit family, do they confiscate our system because of our media collection? Whew, stupid commerce really messes things up. Because then we've got to rent a cheap room in which to run a personal server we can access from elsewhere and put our media on that, nice and private vpn. Of course, part of the point in digitizing it is to fit it on a sailboat and have media when we're out at sea and offline. I really need to get some data on how the border patrol operates and how they deal with live-aboards crossing borders. We should at the least be renting a storage space in our home port just for vehicles and yes, maybe our media drives to protect us from highway robbery.
So I'm also printing a figurine to paint and give to my friend Kris. He was quite interested in our 3d printer and I noticed he had a figurine collection. I found one of the same type and it's printing. I need to remember to change the filament at the right point so the figure changes colour where I want it to. I should have changed it out at the start but now it's half printed the bottom section I can do that before I get to the character who needs to be blue, not black. The thing he's on can be black with paint, though, and I can make it look really spiffy too. Kris gave me honey yesterday, a half pint jar. it's like liquid gold to me and the flavour is so much different from regular alfalfa honey. It's sweeter and lighter, has a more nectary taste to it. Lots of city flowers in it. He's going to get me some honey comb for the chocolates. I think i'd like to mould out small chocolates from it, really special ones. I've got some interesting recipes to ponder.
However, for today it's a car trip up to erindale to pick up meds for Sarah. I'll bring the dogs along so they can get out slightly. It's not much but they like it. Maybe I'll haul them to the dog park now they're actually licensed. Yesterday I picked up a new battery for the smart car. It rode on the foot rest of my scooter. That cutaway format is so useful! After it was installed the car was brighter than it's been for awhile. I mean you could see it in the lights and hear it in the snap of the lock. The radio even seemed louder. The battery I bought was reduced to account for the unexpired warranty on the old one. Considering I know I killed it, not the manufacture, that's a mighty fine arrangement. Dan kept wanting to get angry about it and saying we didn't know what killed it, and am I sure I should trust this company, etc. I told him, yeah, we do know what caused it. I explained to him about how the trickle charger had still been hooked up to the battery and plugged into the extension cord. It's LED was lit. Now the extension is tied into the block heater via sharing the same input plug on the front of the car. That means there's a point where it shares contact with the block heater that is shorting out on the body from fraying. It needs replaced and we're waiting because it's expensive and we're constantly sitting on the edge of our bank accounts. Like today, we've got so little I'm using a credit card, at 24.99% to pay for the meds if they're over $100 because we're on way little till sometime next week again. Bills are paid, but autodebits need covered, Dan needs fuel, etc. It's all because we owe so blasted much it's eating up our income. We refinanced once and dug the hole deeper and so I hold the line on playing one debt against another instead of getting rid of it completely. Only way I can see we'll pay it is if I start selling off our little kingdom and I just hope it helps. It's what the creditors would demand but I think I can get better money for it than a bankruptcy auctioneer, and I want to decide what I get to keep.
The law allows 4 yard sales a year, one per month in the summer, so I'm just going to have to gird up my courage and find my executive function and make it work. I hope also to start listing some of the special things I've saved over the years, perhaps artwork too, on ebay.
But the artwork, oh god, how do you ship a canvas as big as a bathroom mirror? I wish I knew a shipper. that stuff just messes me up. There's so much logistics I know nothing about. I feel so intimidated by the challenge of making sure it doesn't get broken. I feel terrified about the price because I'm clueless about cost. Yeah, it keeps me away from ebay, actually.
I remember a movie where a character created a service that would commission sell items for local folks, taking care of the ebay listing, the shipping, the packing, the whole shebang. I wanted that to be real so badly. Nothing here I know of. I guess it's not fair to say that before at least googling, it's not like one couldn't have popped up since I last investigated. That's a good place to end this entry.
I've begun the digitizing of our movie collection. I got a 3 TB drive and Dan marshalled the software. Since he has the bluray drive we're using his system to do the work. Besides the app only has 30 days and then we have to pay $70 to keep going or maybe install it on my laptop and get another month if we're almost done. We'll need all the bluray disks done by then so I should remember to focus on them. So then I will have our collection in one easy package smaller than a bread box instead of lining a whole damn wall with it. I mean, I could use that space to breathe! Or store knitting, or, well it would also be more convenient for watching. Just plug it into the bluray drive and all our movies are there for the watching on either the main or kitchen tv. Move the device to the other tvs and you have something attached to each one that can watch those movies, although not in 3d. I'll need to rip 3d and non-3d separately, in fact.
So I told Dan I should sell the disks at yard-sales and put in a note that reads "NB: the viewing rights were not sold with these disks. Please borrow a library copy before watching this disk." LOL
So then I think to myself, if we go with our live-aboard sailboat across the border to visit family, do they confiscate our system because of our media collection? Whew, stupid commerce really messes things up. Because then we've got to rent a cheap room in which to run a personal server we can access from elsewhere and put our media on that, nice and private vpn. Of course, part of the point in digitizing it is to fit it on a sailboat and have media when we're out at sea and offline. I really need to get some data on how the border patrol operates and how they deal with live-aboards crossing borders. We should at the least be renting a storage space in our home port just for vehicles and yes, maybe our media drives to protect us from highway robbery.
So I'm also printing a figurine to paint and give to my friend Kris. He was quite interested in our 3d printer and I noticed he had a figurine collection. I found one of the same type and it's printing. I need to remember to change the filament at the right point so the figure changes colour where I want it to. I should have changed it out at the start but now it's half printed the bottom section I can do that before I get to the character who needs to be blue, not black. The thing he's on can be black with paint, though, and I can make it look really spiffy too. Kris gave me honey yesterday, a half pint jar. it's like liquid gold to me and the flavour is so much different from regular alfalfa honey. It's sweeter and lighter, has a more nectary taste to it. Lots of city flowers in it. He's going to get me some honey comb for the chocolates. I think i'd like to mould out small chocolates from it, really special ones. I've got some interesting recipes to ponder.
However, for today it's a car trip up to erindale to pick up meds for Sarah. I'll bring the dogs along so they can get out slightly. It's not much but they like it. Maybe I'll haul them to the dog park now they're actually licensed. Yesterday I picked up a new battery for the smart car. It rode on the foot rest of my scooter. That cutaway format is so useful! After it was installed the car was brighter than it's been for awhile. I mean you could see it in the lights and hear it in the snap of the lock. The radio even seemed louder. The battery I bought was reduced to account for the unexpired warranty on the old one. Considering I know I killed it, not the manufacture, that's a mighty fine arrangement. Dan kept wanting to get angry about it and saying we didn't know what killed it, and am I sure I should trust this company, etc. I told him, yeah, we do know what caused it. I explained to him about how the trickle charger had still been hooked up to the battery and plugged into the extension cord. It's LED was lit. Now the extension is tied into the block heater via sharing the same input plug on the front of the car. That means there's a point where it shares contact with the block heater that is shorting out on the body from fraying. It needs replaced and we're waiting because it's expensive and we're constantly sitting on the edge of our bank accounts. Like today, we've got so little I'm using a credit card, at 24.99% to pay for the meds if they're over $100 because we're on way little till sometime next week again. Bills are paid, but autodebits need covered, Dan needs fuel, etc. It's all because we owe so blasted much it's eating up our income. We refinanced once and dug the hole deeper and so I hold the line on playing one debt against another instead of getting rid of it completely. Only way I can see we'll pay it is if I start selling off our little kingdom and I just hope it helps. It's what the creditors would demand but I think I can get better money for it than a bankruptcy auctioneer, and I want to decide what I get to keep.
The law allows 4 yard sales a year, one per month in the summer, so I'm just going to have to gird up my courage and find my executive function and make it work. I hope also to start listing some of the special things I've saved over the years, perhaps artwork too, on ebay.
But the artwork, oh god, how do you ship a canvas as big as a bathroom mirror? I wish I knew a shipper. that stuff just messes me up. There's so much logistics I know nothing about. I feel so intimidated by the challenge of making sure it doesn't get broken. I feel terrified about the price because I'm clueless about cost. Yeah, it keeps me away from ebay, actually.
I remember a movie where a character created a service that would commission sell items for local folks, taking care of the ebay listing, the shipping, the packing, the whole shebang. I wanted that to be real so badly. Nothing here I know of. I guess it's not fair to say that before at least googling, it's not like one couldn't have popped up since I last investigated. That's a good place to end this entry.